Zodiac Incabloc Manual Wind Dress Watch, 1950s
Ref. 916 · Calibre Zodiac 12Condition — Unpolished steel case, cream dial with a small mark near 8 o'clock, gold-tone hands appear original
Provenance — Bought privately, as most of the collection was.
The gold-toned Arabic numerals on this dial have kept their colour evenly, and that alone tells me the piece hasn't spent decades facing a window. I'm looking at a clean silvered dial with a sunken subsidiary seconds register at six, gold baton hands, and the "Zodiac / Incabloc" signature sitting just above centre. The steel case retains sharp, unpolished lugs, though there's brassing showing through at the shoulders and a scatter of fine scratches on the crystal. Turning it over, the manual-wind Zodiac calibre 12 is neatly finished with visible jewels and a Swiss-signed bridge, and the caseback still carries its stamped reference and legible serial. This is a 1950s three-hander for someone who wants an unrestored dress watch on the wrist rather than in a drawer, wear and all.
Buying from a stranger, in short. Every fault I know of is in the listing, and if you find one I missed, the return stands. Take the watch to a watchmaker of your choosing before you pay — I have never once objected. Fourteen days to send it back, for any reason at all.
Privatverkauf. Everything described above — case, dial, hands, lume, rate and service history — is agreed condition for this watch and I stand behind all of it. Beyond that, the watch is sold excluding liability for material defects, as is normal between private individuals for a vintage mechanical object of this age. That exclusion does not cover anything I have misdescribed or failed to disclose, and never covers injury or intent.
Fourteen days to return it for any reason — my own promise, not a statutory withdrawal right. Terms · How I describe condition
